A novel, compact, and high-resolution phase modulator in reflective mode is presented and used to coherently control two-photon fluorescence of Rhodamine 6G in solution. Two pulses sets that minimize or maximize the fluorescence are found.
The authors present an experimental study of entangled two-photon absorption in solvated rhodamine 6G, providing strong evidence that the orders-of-magnitude increases in two-photon-absorption efficiency by using entangled light reported in previous studies cannot be explained by the community's current understanding of the process. Thus, the sought-after advantages of using two-photon absorption of time-frequency-entangled photon pairs as a practical tool for enhancing molecular spectroscopy and biological imaging remains elusive.
With femtosecond laser spectral phase shaping technique and polarization modulation technique,the coherent control of two-photon fluorescence(TPF)in Rhodamine B solution is studied.By shaping the femtosecond pulse with simple phase patterns(cosinusoidal andπphase step-function shape),two-photon fluorescence intensity of Rhodamine B can be controlled effectively.Theoretical simulation and calculation show that the variation of twophoton fluorescence intensity for Rhodamine B solution is ascribed to the constructive and destructive interference of various quantum paths in two-photon transitions.TPF of Rhodamine B solution displays periodical change by polarization modulation.TPF decreases when the laser polarization changes from linear through elliptical to circular.These experimental results are theoretically confirmed to be caused by the variation of laser polarization.
By using an intensity correlation, or photon coincidence, technique and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with artificially applied phase fluctuations in one arm, we measured the coherence time of a thermal light beam. The light was derived from the filtered fluorescence of a rhodamine 6G dye solution. The two-photon coincidence rate was measured as a function of path difference and was found to dip 50% when the two arms of the interferometer are balanced. The coherence time of ~100 fs is determined from the measured width of the dip and is consistent with the passband of the filters. The method does not require the stability needed in second-order interference measurements, and its time resolution can be much shorter than that of the photodetectors. The theory of this type of fourth-order interference technique is discussed.